Class I. DEER. 



accounts from the Indians who refort to the fado- 

 ries, that there is found a deer, about feven or eight 

 hundred miles weft of Tork fort, which they call 

 TVa/keJfeu, and fay is vaftly fuperior in fize to the 

 common Moofe. But as yet nothing has tranfpi- 

 red relating to fo magnificent an animal. The dif- 

 ference of fize between the modern Moofe, and th£ 

 owners of the foffil horns may be eftimated by the 

 following account. The largeft horns of the Ame- 

 rican Moofe ever brought over, are only thirty-two 

 inches long, and thirty-four between tip and tip^ 

 The length of one of the fo/Til horns is. fix feet 

 four inches. The fpace between tip and tip near 

 twelve feet. The largeft Mooje defcribed by any 

 authentic voyager does not exceed the fize of a 

 great horfe ; that which I faw (a female) was fif- 

 teen hands high. But we muft fearch for much 

 larger animals to fupport the weight of our foflil 

 horns. If Jojfelynh or Budlfs Moofe of twelve feet 

 in height ever exifted *, we may fuppofe that to 

 have been a fpecies, which as population advanc- 

 ed, retired into diftant parts, into depths of woods 

 unknown but to diftant Indians. 



* Voy. to Nenv England, 88, Ne^ England Rarities, 19. 

 S.ee alfo Mr. Dudlf^ account in Ph. Tranf. abridg. VII. 447. 



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